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Shelf and Londonderry High, are potential targets. Any
traps and structures on the migration route from the mature source in the
basin to the onlaps on the eastern edge are also potential targets. Valley-fill
type reservoirs formed on the flanks of the Kimberley Block and the persistent
high platforms could be another important stratigraphic trap. Inversion
of Paleozoic basin areas and other strata by the Timorese Orogeny might
be additional targets for investigation. Hour-glass structures of Tithonian
reservoir sandstones sealed laterally by faults during Tertiary tectonic
events are described by Maung and others (1994).
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